Shore & BeachPub Date : 2019-06-18DOI: 10.34237/1008724
P. Ruggiero, N. Cohn, B. Hoonhout, E. Goldstein, S. Vries, L. Moore, S. Hacker, O. D. Vinent
{"title":"Simulating dune evolution on managed coastlines: Exploring management options with the Coastal Recovery from Storms Tool (CReST)","authors":"P. Ruggiero, N. Cohn, B. Hoonhout, E. Goldstein, S. Vries, L. Moore, S. Hacker, O. D. Vinent","doi":"10.34237/1008724","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.34237/1008724","url":null,"abstract":"Despite the importance of coastal dunes to many low-lying coastal communities and ecosystems, our understanding of how both climatic and anthropogenic pressures affect foredune evolution on time scales of years to decades is relatively poor. However, recently developed coupled numerical modeling tools have allowed for the exploration of the erosion and growth of coastal foredunes on time scales of hours to years. For example, Windsurf is a new process-based numerical modeling system (Cohn et al. 2019a) that simulates the evolution of dune-backed sandy coastal systems in response to wave, wind, and water level forcings. CReST, developed as a front-end interface to Windsurf, aims to add the ability to incorporate beach nourishment and dune construction, beach and dune grading, dune grass planting scenarios, dune grass removal, and the presence of hard engineering structures into the model framework to better account for the complex dynamics of managed coastlines. Initial model sensitivity tests suggest that the model provides a flexible framework to investigate the complex interactions between beaches and dunes for a variety of exploratory and applied applications.","PeriodicalId":153020,"journal":{"name":"Shore & Beach","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126921871","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Shore & BeachPub Date : 2019-06-18DOI: 10.34237/1008726
A. Williams, K. Fallon, D. Swallow
{"title":"Coastal erosion field trip at the Sea Grant’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting with North Carolina Sea Grant Specialist Spencer Rogers","authors":"A. Williams, K. Fallon, D. Swallow","doi":"10.34237/1008726","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.34237/1008726","url":null,"abstract":"During Sea Grant’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting at the end of March 2018, a group of coastal scientists took advantage of the location on the Outer Banks of North Carolina to view the recent impacts of multiple nor’easters that had wreaked havoc on the coast (Figure 1). “Nor’easters” is the term used for the extratropical cyclones that form during the months between October and April, typically, when cold, dry continental air meets warmer air from the Atlantic Ocean. These storms intensify as they move northeast along the coast, bringing large storm surges and increased wave energy resulting in flooding and beach erosion. Coastal resiliency and flood insurance rates are critical issues to local communities. The Community Rating System, FEMA flood maps, and the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012 all play a part in determining the flood insurance rates for homeowners in North Carolina.","PeriodicalId":153020,"journal":{"name":"Shore & Beach","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128017342","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}